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Martin Campbell, who directed 2011's Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds, admitted the movie could have been better if Reynolds had done one specific thing. Despite its massive cast, including Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Tim Robbins, Angela Bassett, and Temuera Morrison, 2011's Green Lantern is considered one of the worst comic book movies ever. It holds an abysmal 25% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, with just a 45% audience score, and has become the subject of countless Reynolds jokes.

Looking back at the film over 10 years later, director Martin Campbell has what he believes to be the perfect solution for how it could have been fixed and instead been a great film. Speaking exclusively to The Direct while promoting his recent film Cleaners, Campbell revealed exactly how Ryan Reynolds could have fixed Green Lantern.

Campbell admitted that, despite the film flopping, he and Reynolds had a great time making it. The director even...

The Film Development Council of the Philippines ( Fdcp) will hold I Animate: Animation Film Festival starting April 24 to May 7 in its regional Cinematheque Centres and select Sm cinemas

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Revealed last April 15, 2025, the lineup is top billed by renowned world cinema titles led by Cinemalaya 2023 Best Film “Iti Mapukpukaw (The Missing)”, the Oscar 2025 Best Animated Feature Film “Flow,”and BFI London Film Festival Best Film “Memoir of a Snail.”

Other acclaimed full-length films to be screened are “Cleaners”by Glenn Barit, “Saving Sally” by Avid Liongoren, “Wolf Children” by Mamoru Hosoda, “Ghost Cat Anzu” by Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita, “Loving Vincent” by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, “Le Petit Nicolas” by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre,”Robot Dreams” by Pablo Berger, and “Weathering With You” by Makoto Shinkai.

The festival also includes short films under the following three sections: Animated Short Focus, From the Archives, and Student Shorts Showcase.

The Film Development Council of the Philippines ( Fdcp) will hold “I Animate: Animation Film Festival” starting April 24 to May 7 in its regional Cinematheque Centres and select Sm cinemas

Revealed last April 15, 2025, the lineup is led by Cinemalaya 2023 Best Film “Iti Mapukpukaw” (The Missing), the Oscar 2025 Best Animated Feature Film “Flow”, and BFI London Film Festival Best Film “Memoir of a Snail.”

Acclaimed Asian full-length features to be screened are “Cleaners” by Glenn Barit, “Saving Sally” by Avid Liongoren, “Wolf Children” by Mamoru Hosoda, “Ghost Cat Anzu” by Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita, and “Weathering With You” by Makoto Shinkai. “Loving Vincent” by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, “Le Petit Nicolas” by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre, and “Robot Dreams” by Pablo Berger are the other world cinema titles in the festival.

I Animate also includes Philippine short films under the following three sections: Animated Short Focus, From the Archives, and Student Shorts Showcase.

Fandor has revealed the new films that are joining the artfully entertaining streaming service in April.

Highlights include: Russ Meyer‘s satirical sexploitation Vixen trilogy; acclaimed psychological nightmare Repulsion; ’70s Gothic horror And Now the Screaming Starts starring Peter Cushing; and Dario Argento‘s aria of terror in Opera;

There’s also Takashi Miike‘s supernatural chiller Over Your Dead Body; body-horror favorite American Mary; Soviet dystopian sci-fi comedy Kin-dza-dza; Taiwanese neo-noir crime thriller Who Killed Cock Robin; and Slamdance Grand Jury Prize winner The Accident.

Here’s the full line-up:

April 4: Wuss, Louder Than You Think: A Lo-fi History of Gary Young and Pavement, Striding into the Wind, Who Killed Cock Robin, Alan Pakula: Going For the Truth, Therapy Dogs, Kin-dza-dza!

April 8: The Accident

April 11: Over Your Dead Body, Clearcut, Opera, Moments Like This Never Last

April 18: And Now the Screaming Starts, Vixen,...

Ubisoft’s new free-to-play first-person shooter, XDefiant, just released on the 21st of May for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. This casual free-to-play shooter brings together locations and factions from various Ubisoft franchises, such as Tom Clancy, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, and more.

Players can choose from five factions at launch, with more coming in via different seasons later on. These factions currently include Libertad from Far Cry, Echelon from Splinter Cell, Phantoms from Ghost Recon, DedSec from Watch Dogs, and Cleaners from The Division.

XDefiant Doesn’t Have a Platinum Trophy for PS5

XDefiant has more than a few things in common with classic Call of Duty games.

One major disappointment for PlayStation 5 users has been that XDefiant will not feature a Platinum trophy. Most PS5 games include this achievement, which is a reward for getting all the other trophies in the game, but XDefiant lacks in this department.

If Criterion24/7 hasn’t completely colonized your attention every time you open the Channel––this is to say: if you’re stronger than me––their May lineup may be of interest. First and foremost I’m happy to see a Michael Roemer triple-feature: his superlative Nothing But a Man, arriving in a Criterion Edition, and the recently rediscovered The Plot Against Harry and Vengeance is Mine, three distinct features that suggest a long-lost voice of American movies. Meanwhile, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Antiwar Trilogy four by Sara Driver, and a wide collection from Ayoka Chenzira fill out the auteurist sets.

Series-wise, a highlight of 1999 goes beyond the well-established canon with films like Trick and Bye Bye Africa, while of course including Sofia Coppola, Michael Mann, Scorsese, and Claire Denis. Films starring Shirley Maclaine, a study of 1960s paranoia, and Columbia’s “golden era” (read: 1950-1961) are curated; meanwhile, The Breaking Ice,...

The first trailer has been unveiled for documentary “In the Shadow of Beirut,” executive produced by Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Siobhan Sinnerton for HiddenLight Productions.

The film is a cinematic portrait of modern-day Lebanon as seen through the eyes of four families living in the impoverished Sabra and Shatila neighbourhoods of the city, the scene of an infamous massacre in 1982. It filmed over four years with unique access to the families within these largely restricted areas and is co-directed by Stephen Gerard Kelly, in his debut, and Garry Keane. Kelly built up his relationship with the families over a six-year period.

Lead producer is Belfast-based Cyprus Avenue Films. Production partners include Beirut’s Abbout Productions, Ireland-based Real Films (“Gaza”) and Berlin-based Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion (“The Cleaners”). Co-producers include Myriam Sassine, Christian Beetz and Alison Toomey.

The film played at New Zealand’s Doc Edge Festival where it won several awards.

Hilary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions is co-producing a new feature documentary with the team behind Sundance 2019 title “Gaza.”

“In the Shadow of Beirut” is a cinematic portrait of modern-day Lebanon as seen through the eyes of four families living in the impoverished Sabra and Shatila neighbourhoods of the city, the scene of an infamous massacre in 1982.

The film will be executive produced by Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Siobhan Sinnerton for HiddenLight.

The doc is filmed over four years with unique access to the families within these largely restricted areas and co-directed by Stephen Gerard Kelly, in his debut, and Garry Keane. Kelly built up his relationship with the families over a six-year period.

The film follows its protagonists through the pandemic and the deteriorating economic crisis engulfing the country. However, the struggles of the film’s central protagonists began long before the deadly 2020 port explosion that rocked Beirut.

The Emily Osment-starring multi-camera comedy Pretty Smart will not be returning to Netflix for a second season, according to TVLine. Created by Jack Dolgen and Doug Mand, the series revolves around Chelsea (Osment), a Harvard-educated, aspiring novelist who moves in with her bubbly and not-so-intellectual sister Claire (Olivia Macklin) after being dumped by her boyfriend. The tough and sometimes stand-offish Chelsea soon finds herself dealing with her carefree sister and her three lovably eccentric roommates. In addition to Osment and Macklin, the cast also included Gregg Sulkin (Faking It) as the distractingly handsome personal trainer Grant, Cinthya Carmona (Greenhouse Academy) as former lawyer turned healer Solana, and Michael Hsu Rosen (Tiny Pretty Things) as social media influencer Jayden. Osment started out as a child actress, co-starring as Gerti Giggles in the Spy Kids sequel movies. She is perhaps best known for playing Lilly Truscott in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana.

The Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest) will be an online-only event for its fourth edition, which will take place later this month.

The Festival originally intended to be an in-person event and even announced its selection for the event, which was initially scheduled to take place in December, 2020. However, Covid regulations in Malaysia were made stricter in November, which caused cinemas countrywide to close down and made the event impossible. With the regulations showing no signs of easing yet, organisers have been forced to move the event into the digital space and make it an online-only event.

The festival is now scheduled to be held from January 15th-21st on the streaming platform Mubi. The audiences in Malaysia can stream the selection free of cost by taking advantage of Mubi’s extended 30-days free trial subscription. Joanne Goh, the festival chairperson, together with actor Bront Palarae made the announcement at the 4th MIFFest Gala Night.

The fourth edition of the Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest) is now set to be held later this month as an online-only event.

The festival was originally scheduled to take place as an in-person event in December and got as far as announcing its selection. However, Malaysia’s coronavirus control measures were increased at the beginning of November, causing cinemas across much of the country to close.

Miffest organizers said in November that they hoped to be still able to put on a real-world festival in January when cinemas reopened. But with the virus still hitting cinema operations that is no longer a viable option.

Instead, the festival will now be held Jan. 15-21, playing out on streaming platform Mubi. Audiences in Malaysia can stream the selection free of charge through an extended 30-day trial subscription to Mubi.

The announcement was made by Joanne Goh, the festival chairperson, together with...

The Laos-based Luang Prabang Film Festival has set out a selection that focuses strongly on films from South East Asia, or were made in or about the region. Now entering its tenth edition, the independent festival will be held fully online this year and run Dec. 4-10, 2020.

All films will be screened free of charge, with streaming access opened to viewers in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The lineup of 24 feature films and 10 shorts includes “Buoyancy,” a Cambodia-Australia fictionalized account of the human trafficking in the region’s commercial fishing industry, and mystical Thai film “Manta Ray” which touches on the Rohinga problem, identity and displacement.

The festival also gives Indonesian animated documentary “kOsOng” its Southeast Asian premiere. The film follows five women from Java and the pressures and revelations they face in living a childless life. Anthony Chen’s “Wet Season” drama...

Superman & Lois has officially found its Lana Lang in Emmanuelle Chriqui.

The CW’s developing Supergirl spinoff, Superman & Lois, has cast Canadian actress Chriqui as a series regular, set to play the classic Superman comic book presence and frequent live-action-adapted character for the small screen Arrowverse shows, reports Deadline. The main cast role will see her join Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch, who co-star as the titular couple.

Chriqui will portray a version of the character, named Lana Lang-Cushing, who’s described as “the loan officer at Smallville Bank who stayed in Smallville when others left for something bigger and brighter. Lana reestablishes her friendship with her old friend, Clark Kent, during one of the most difficult periods in her life.”

Of course, the addition of Lana to the mix implies a major component to the series dynamic, since she is famously known as the first love of...

Lifetime on Saturday premiered its Britney Spears biopic Britney Ever After. Was it a trashy good time, or a positively toxic viewing experience?

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In this unauthorized, made-for-tv flick, the Princess of Pop (played by Aussie actress Natasha Bassett) was portrayed as, in the words of her own mother, “the kind of girl who always needed a man in her life.” The first half of Ever After focused exclusively on her relationship with Justin Timberlake (Cleaners‘ Nathan Keyes), and their eventual breakup was depicted as the reason Spears made a number...

Still not sure this is gonna, er, work, b**ch.

The trailer for Britney Ever After that Lifetime dropped on Monday makes it clear that the biopic will follow the pop superstar from the top of the charts to the depths of despair — and back. But what’s likeliest to stick with you after viewing the promo is its glimpse of the TV movie’s reenactment of the singer’s infamous 2007 head-shaving incident.

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Even if you didn’t feel for her then, you kinda...

It’s so not Britney, bitch.

Lifetime on Thursday — just one day before the Princess of Pop turns 35 — released a batch of photos from its upcoming Britney Spears biopic, giving us our first look at major players like Spears (Camp‘s Natasha Bassett), Kevin Federline (Power Rangers‘ Clayton Chitty) and even Justin Timberlake (Cleaners‘ Nathan Keyes) in action.

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(Side note: Don’t feel bad if you don’t recognize any of those names. You probably won’t recognize their faces either, nor the faces of the characters they’re allegedly portraying.

Lifetime’s upcoming biopic on Britney Spears has found its Justin Timberlake. Actor Nathan Keyes has been cast as Timberlake in “Britney”, Entertainment Weekly confirms. He joins the already-cast Natasha Barrett who will play the “Toxic” singer. Keyes has a recurring role on the series “Cleaners” and appeared in an episode of “Glee”. Related: Casting Call: […]...

Entourage alumna Emmanuelle Chriqui is joining TNT’s Murder in the First as a series regular.

Per our sister site Deadline, Chriqui will play Lara Cruz, a brash and badass member of the Sfpd Gang Task Force.

Chriqui marks the second addition for Season 2 of the crime drama, which last month cast CSI: NY vet A.J. Buckley as Marty “Junior” Mulligan, brother to Kathleen Robertson’s Detective Hildy Mulligan and a fellow San Francisco Pd police officer.

Chriqui — who will appear in the upcoming Entourage motion picture — also has had roles on TV’s The Mentalist and The Borgias, plus Crackle’s Cleaners.

In addition to its swarming hordes of zombies, Capcom’s Dead Rising video game series has always followed interesting human characters striving to survive the living dead landscape. Legendary Digital Media and Crackle have teamed up for Dead Rising: Watchtower, a live action feature adaptation of the popular video game, and the film’s full cast has now been revealed along with a new photo from the set.

“Burbank, CA – October 20, 2014 – Legendary’s Digital Media division and Crackle announced today the principal cast for the upcoming feature-length project Dead Rising: Watchtower. Rob Riggle (Let’S Be Cops, 22 Jump Street), Harley Morenstein (Epic Meal Time, Epic Meal Empire, Tusk), Keegan Connor Tracey (Bates Motel, Once Upon A Time), and Aleks Paunovic (This Means War) will join previously announced cast members Jesse Metcalfe, Meghan Ory, Virginia Madsen and Dennis Haysbert.

Riggle will join the cast as Frank West, a weathered...

Season 2 of the high-stakes, action-packed Crackle series Cleaners follows the equally gorgeous and lethal contract killers Veronica (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and Roxie (Emily Osment) to a small island in the Caribbean where they think they are about to cash in, only to realize they have not yet escaped their past or Mother (Gina Gershon). The show also stars David Arquette, Missi Pyle, Esai Morales, Omar Avila, David Rees Snell and John Savage. During this exclusive interview with Collider, actress Emmanuelle Chriqui (who is also an executive producer on the series) talked about how she came to be a part of Cleaners, how exciting it is to be a part of the new frontier of original programming, how daunting the stunt work is in such a limited amount of time, collaborating on the development of the story and characters, what made Emily Osment the perfect Roxie, and why they decided to change...

The nominees for the 4th annual Streamy Awards—acknowledging explemplary, original online video content—have been announced. “If the caliber of this year’s nominees is any indication, we’re on track for the biggest Streamys ever,” said executive producer Drew Baldwin, co-founder of Streamy Awards presenting partner Tubefilter, in a statement. At the forefront of the nominations was the Emmy-winning “Pride and Prejudice”-inspired Web series “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries,” which landed a best drama nomination as well as taps for two of its actors: Daniel Vincent Gordh and Ashley Clements. It’s a good year for the series that was picked up by Starz Digital Media in June. Well-known Viner Brittany Furlan also received three nods including best actress in a Web series comedy for “Shfty ~ Super Happy Fun Time, Yay!,” best Vine comedian, and Viner of the year. Fellow Viner Klarity, also on “Shfty,” was recognized in...

How low can you go?"Entourage" star Emmanuelle Chriqui stole the spotlight on the red carpet at Crackle's "Cleaners" and "Sequestered" premiere party in West Hollywood on Thursday night.The 36-year-old actress flaunted her decolletage in a deep plunging black silk gown with a matching black belt to accentuate her tiny waist. She completed the sexy look with nude pumps and a side-swept 'do.The brunette beauty attended the event to promote her new show "Cleaners," where she plays a lethal contract killer alongside David Arquette. Emmanuelle also is set to reprise her role of Sloan in the upcoming "Entourage" movie. According to a Warner Bros. press release, the flick will find Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and the boys (Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon and Jerry Ferrara) "back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. (Jeremy Piven)"It continues, "Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them...

When it comes to watching television on your computer, this may be known as the year we all (rightly) freaked out over Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, but there was more to streaming than just that fantastic prison comedy and drama about the inner workings of D.C.. If you have already binged on those, now is a great time to check out some other great streaming shows you may have missed. Below, check out ten of our picks, as well as how to watch them now – perfect for over the holidays.

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The Sony-owned streaming video site Crackle may not have the profile of Netflix or Hulu, but its been investing in original series of its own as well, among them the Jerry Seinfeld-hosted "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" and the contract killer series "Cleaners," starring Emmanuelle Chriqui and Gina Gershon. But it's original thriller "Chosen" that's been Crackle's most-watched original series, a thriller created by Ben Ketai (director of "30 Days of Night" sequel "Dark Days") and Ryan Lewis (producer of "Fat Kid Rules the World") that stars Milo Ventimiglia as Ian Mitchell, a defense lawyer who finds a box with a gun and a photo of a stranger inside it, and gets pulled into a secretly, deadly game. The six-episode first season premiered in full on January 17, each episode a TV-ready 22 or so minutes long. Crackle is bringing back "Chosen" for a second season of six half-hour episodes on December 12th,...

It’s a fast paced, action thriller with a star packed cast, but Cleaners isn’t coming to theaters or cable. The new series debuts this week exclusively on Sony Crackle. Director Paul Leyden and star Emmanuelle Chriqui talk about how quickly the whole project moved both in front and behind the camera. Catch a trailer here and be ready for the series debut Thursday. Plus Agents Of Shield grows even more and Constantine is headed to TV.

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